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It's election season! Join us this week as Lukas and Jae sit down to have a conversation about a topic that is often tricky for Christians to navigate, politics.  In the first part of the episode (4:03-30:06), we discuss on the "religionization" of politics in America, unfortunately even within most Christian circles. We talk about the polarizing nature of bipartisanship and the "silliness" of being hyper-political in either direction. We discuss where our identity truly lies and how the election results will not change a single thing for Christians, but regardless of that reality, we still put so much stock into the policies and candidates of the Republican and Democrat parties when they cannot and will not save us. Each party appeals to Christianity in part, but they always fall short of the mark.  Christians should feel homeless politically; we shouldn't feel like we can identify with either party. This Earth isn't our Home and if we aren't feeling that politically or socially, maybe we need to reasses the way we approach our Faith. We talk about Truth, Un-Truth, and Lies, and the new Law that we create and bind ourselves to with strict political idealogies. We talk about God's rule versus Man's rule, and who really holds the ultimate Power and Authority. Love and Justice and Mercy come from God only and the two major political parties of today attempt to corrupt those attributes and twist them to their agendas. We warn against serving the Kingdoms of Man instead of serving the Kingdom of God, and encourage our community to live in the reality of their Kingdom citizenship. We talk about what it means to be "in the World and not of the World" politically. We look at Daniel as an example of how to serve your country with the Kingdom of God still in the front of our mind. As Christians, our cause is not the agenda or policies or campaigns of the Republican Party or the Democrat Party, our cause is the Gospel.  We take a look at our civic rights as Americans and our civic rights as Citizens of Heaven and discuss which to choose when they conflict with each other (the choice should be an obvious one). We talk about the reality of potentially needing to abandon our duties as Americans when it calls for us to "choose between the lesser of two evils." Choosing the lesser evil is still consciously choosing evil. If your convictions are pushing or pulling you to not vote, that is okay, and if they're using you to vote in a particular way, then that's okay too! Luke brings up a curious point about the futility of voting for leaders in light of the Bible telling us about God appointing all power. We need to always consider that the Kingdom of God is forever. In the latter half of the episode (30:34-47:33), we discuss allegiance. We compare at competing allegiances (God and nationalism) and look at a chapter of a book by James K. A. Smith, "Desiring the Kingdom..." Through this lens we touch on intertwined topics such as nationalism, patriotism, competing allegiances, the strange and undermining Lie of patriotic sacrifice as "the ultimate sacrifice," and a very interesting idea around trading religious liturgies for cultural ones. We talk about the unity of the Church and how that gets overlooked so often in American Christianity. We implore listeners to evaluate where their allegiance truly lies and to remember the Nation that truly holds it. We want this episode to be a catalyst for constructive conversation, and ask our listeners to reach out! For more information on what we're all about here at The Audibility Podcast, go ahead and check out our website https://audibilitypodcast.com, and to get connected with us, follow us on Instagram, @audibilitypodcast.